Summer Medium Term Plan (First Half)
Special
Events
Literacy
Numeracy
Topic: The Savage Stone Age
Week 1
Monday 11th April
2016
Week 2
Monday 18th April
2016
Week 3
Monday 25th April
2016
Apollo Singing
Session 2
(Friday 15th April
2016)
Instructions
Chn read and follow
instructions on how
to make Stone age
necklace and stewed
fruit.
Outcomes:
Chn understand the
presentational and
text features of
writing instructions.
Grammar:
Identify temporal
connectives, bossy
verbs, adverbs and
conjunctions in
instructions.
Apollo Singing
Session 3
(Thursday 21st April
2016)
Instructions
Text: How to live
like a Stone Age
Hunter by Anita
Ganeri
Writing instructions
using temporal
connectives and
bossy verbs for how
to live like a Stone
Age hunter i.e
catching a woolly
mammoth, making a
fire etc.
Outcomes:
Write clear
instructions.
Grammar:
Use temporal
connectives, bossy
verbs, adverbs and
conjunctions in
instructions.
Subtraction
Subtracting one digit
numbers from
multiple of 10 using
mental strategies (i.e.
130- 4 =) by using
Subtraction
Subtracting by
adjusting - near
multiples of 10 i.e.
87- 19= (87 – 20=
67/ 67 + 1 = 68)
Year 3 Class
Assembly
(Thursday 28th April
2016)
Character Profile
Text: Stig of the
dump
Use clues from the
text to describe Stig
using adjectives,
What does Barney
think of Stig. What
do you think Stig
think of Barney? Has
he ever seen anyone
like that? Use thought
tracking to explore
what Stig think of
Barney.
Outcomes:
Write character
profiles using
adjectives,
Grammar:
Writing in the
present tense, using
questions and
adjectives.
2D Shapes
Making 2D shapes
and identifying
properties (number
of sides/
straight/curved,
Week 4
Monday 2nd May 2016
Week 5
Monday 9th May 2016
Diary Entry
Text: Stig of the
dump
Write the initial part
of the story from
Barney’s point of
view when he falls
into the pit. What
does he see? What
does he think? How
does he feel?
Outcomes:
Sequencing a part of
the story
Grammar:
Writing in the
present tense, using
questions.
Sequencing
Text: Stig of the
dump
When Stig gets home
he records he night’s
events on the wall of
his den. Look at the
pictures. Chn write
use the pictures to
sequence and write
down the events,
Outcomes:
Sequencing a part of
the story
Grammar:
Writing in the
present tense, using
questions.
3D Shapes
Making 3D shapes
using modelling
material and
recognising 3D
shapes from different
3D Shapes
Identify and record
the properties of 3D
shapes (i.e. number
of faces, vertices,
edges.)
Year 3
2015-16
Week 6
Monday 16th May
2016
Week 7
Monday 23rd May
2016
Apollo Singing
Session 4
(Monday 16th May
2016)
Report Writing
Text: Woolly
Mammoth by Mick
Manning
Writing a report on
animas from the
Stone Age. What did
it look like? What is
it’s special features?
Outcomes:
Chn write a report
using paragraphs.
Class Singing and
Music Concert
(Thursday 26th May
2016)
1. Independent
Writing Task in
special books
2. Half termly
comprehension
Word Problems
Read one step word
problems involving
addition and
subtraction. Use
understanding of
Word problems
Read and solve two
step word problems
involving all four
operations.
number bond facts
Subtracting one digits
number from a two
digit number by
bridging to the
nearest to. To use
number bond facts.
Subtracting two digit
numbers by
partitioning.
Science
History
Art/ DT
Fossils
What are the
different types of
fossils?
Chn name and
identify the four
different types of
fossils.
The old Stone Age
Palaeolithic Age
When did this period
last in Britain?
Understand that the
Stone Age was
broken into three
parts.
Look at the end of
the Ice Age and the
first traces of human
life. Where did they
live? What skills did
they have?
Stone Age
jewellery
What did the Stone
Age people hunt
animals for? Chn
understand that they
Subtracting by
adjusting - near
multiples of 100 i.e.
137- 99= (137 –
100= 37/ 37 + 1 =
38)
numbers of corners)
orientations.
Use a ruler to
accurately draw
closed shapes.
Measuring perimeter
of simple 2D shapes.
Describe how 3D
shapes are made of
different 2D shapes.
Identify pairs of
perpendicular and
parallel lines.
Identify angles- right
angles, larger/ smaller
than right angles.
Fossils
Fossils
What is the process
What is the process
of fossilization?
of fossilization?
How do animals and
Chn create a pyramid
plants become fossils? diorama to show the
Look at the different process of
stages.
fossilization.
Recognising that
some shapes have the
same properties
(cube and cuboid.)
Mentally visualise 3D
shapes and recall its
properties (i.e.
number of faces,
vertices, edges.)
Difference
Calculating the
difference of multiple
of 10 i.e. 120-90=
vocabulary
(altogether, in total,
less) to choose
correct operation.
Read one step word
problems involving
multiplication and
division. Use
understanding of
vocabulary to choose
correct operation.
Plants
What Do Plants
Need to Grow Well?
Plants
What Have You
Found Out?
To explore the
requirements of plants for
life and growth
(air, light, water, nutrients
from soil, and room to
grow) by
investigating what plants
need to grow well.
To record findings using
simple scientific language,
drawings, labelled
diagrams, keys, bar charts
and tables
by observing and
recording plant growth.
To investigate the way in
which water is
transported
within plants by observing
the transport of food
colouring
through a flower stem.
• I can investigate how
water is transported in
plants.
Bronze Age
What was the
Bronze age? When
did this period? How
was this different
from the Stone Age?
Iron Age
What was the Iron
Age? When did this
period? How was
this different from
the Bronze Age?
The Middle Stone
Age
Mesolithic Age
When did this period
last in Britain?
What type of shelters
did they live in/ What
skills did they have?
How were the
people different from
the old Stone Age?
The New Stone
Age
Neolithic Age
When did this period
last in Britain?
How was this period
different from the
Middle Stone Age?
Chn look at farming
and how people at
this time lived.
Stonehenge
What is
Stonehenge? Who
was it built by and
when? What was it
used for? Does it still
exits today?
Stewed Fruit
To find out what
people ate in the
Stone Age and how
their diet changed.
What did people eat
Cave Painting
Understand how our
knowledge of the
past is constructed
from a range of
sources- finding
Cave Painting
What pictures did
the Stone Age people
draw inside the
caves? What did they
use? What kind of
Skara Brae
Where is Skara Brae?
What was found
there? How do we
know about it?
Stone Age Tools
What did the Stone
Age people use
stocks and stones
for? Chn look at the
different tools that
Plants
Moving Water
Plants
What Do Plants
Need to Grow Well?
To explore the
requirements of plants for
life and growth
(air, light, water, nutrients
from soil, and room to
grow) by
investigating what plants
need to grow well.
Timeline
Chn create timelines
to show the different
events and periods
from the
Palaeolithic Age to
the Iron Age.
used stones and
animal teeth to
create tools and
jewellery.
Chn make jewellery
in the style of the
Stone Age.
in the Stone Age?
Sample foods
available to the
hunter gatherers in
the Stone Age. Chn
make a stewed fruit
with blackberries,
blueberries and
honey.
painting and evidence
in caves.
To create pictures in
the style of cave
paintings.
‘Cave Paintings’ what images are
brought to mind?
Chn create cave
prints of hand
impressions.
animals did they
draw? Chn create
cave paintings of
animals and markings
that the Stone Age
people used.
ICT
Computing with Matt Reader
Topic: Chatbox using Scratch (creating a conversation game with a Stone Age man)
R.E
Ghazala PPA
Music
P.E
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Apollo singing project
Reorders
Singup songs: Wonder by Emelie Sande/ Count on me by Bruno Mars
Tennis/ Handball
they made like
harpoons, axe, spears
out of sticks and
stones. Why did they
need these tools?
Chn make tools in
the style of the Stone
Age.